Novelist, screenwriter, cinematographer and now director S. Craig Zahler’s major new Western adventure Bone Tomahawk has sealed financing and has pre-sold to Magnolia for U.S. distribution.

The movie, set to star Kurt Russell (Deathproof), Peter Sarsgaard (An Education), Jennifer Carpenter (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood), has also inked a deal with Constantin for German speaking Europe.

Celluloid Dreams and Unconnect, the sales company partners, inked a slew of territory pre-sales on the hot title.

The movie follows an outlaw who unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope. When the monsters kidnap several settlers a small rescue party journey into hell to try and rescue them.

Zahler’s first novel, A Congregation of Jackals, was nominated for Western fiction’s two major prizes: The Spur and The Peacemaker and his latest novel Wraiths of the Broken Land was published this week by Raw Dog Screaming Press.